Russian invasion of Ukraine

[zealo]

As Russia is not really the same as USSR. Yeah, I think the precision was worth it and even more as the Pact of Warsaw (and not Russia) was a response to the creation of NATO.

Drop the pedantry buddy, the USSR were effectively a reorganisation of the Russian Empire in practise, absolutely everyone understands already what it means to refer to it as Russia in pre 1991 contexts when talking about NATO.

[Corvus]

According to the russian government the high cost of eggs has nothing to do with them. Nope, it's people being greedy and eating too many due to an increased standard of living.

https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/...64807571140843

[Iphie]

"increased standard of living"...well I guess if you compare it to Imperial russia.These people are so incredible delusional.

[Flarelaine]

Did we seriously waste a page on whether the Soviet Union was Russia?

[Makabreska]

Another unidentified object from across Ukraine border entered Polish space.

[alach]

Im sure everyone was expecting this, it has been a quiet few months in the skies over Ukraine.

Moscow unleashes biggest aerial barrage of war on Ukraine

Russia unleashes biggest-ever barrage on Ukraine
Russia launched 122 missiles and 36 drones against Ukrainian targets on Friday, according to officials.

At least 22 civilians were killed across the country according to a Ukrainian airforce official, who said it was the biggest aerial barrage of the 22-month war.

Most of the incoming missiles and drones were shot down - but scores of people were reported injured. An unknown number were buried under the rubble of hit buildings.

Zelenskyy said the Kremlin’s forces used a wide variety of weapons, including ballistic and cruise missiles.

Air Force commander Mykola Oleshchuk wrote on his official Telegram channel: “The most massive aerial attack” since Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022.

According to the Ukrainian Air Force, the previous biggest assault was in November 2022 when Russia launched 96 missiles against Ukraine. This year, the biggest was 81 missiles on March 9, air force records show.

The roughly 18-hour onslaught that began on Thursday and continued through the night hit six cities, including the capital Kyiv, and other areas from east to west Ukraine, according to authorities.

This new wave of strikes shows that the country needs “more help” from the international community, reacted Andriy Yermak, the chief of staff of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

And then,

Huge' Russian losses in Ukraine
Russia is suffering "enormous" losses in men and equipment in its war in Ukraine, a senior German army official said in an interview published on Friday.

“According to figures from Western intelligence services, 300,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or so seriously injured that they can no longer be mobilised in the war,” General Christian Freuding told the daily Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Concerning equipment, he added: "We think that they [the Russians] lost a number of tanks and armoured units numbering in the thousands and at the high end of the range.

[Corvus]

pootie's temper tantrum at the loss of the ship the other day. The estimated cost of his tantrum was over $1.2 billion dollars for no military benefit as those not shot down only hit civilian targets.

Oh, and reportedly the commanders of the air defence units that failed to bring down the missiles that blew up his ship have been reassigned to meat wave units.

[Belize]

Did we seriously waste a page on whether the Soviet Union was Russia?

Semantics is all that Russians have at this point.

They can't discuss the war in any real fashion since they have exactly 0 valid arguments for its continuation, and under threat of defenestration for failing daddy Putin.

[Saradain]

Another unidentified object from across Ukraine border entered Polish space.

Polish authorities seem to have identified it as a russian missile.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67839340

Poland's armed forces chief believes a Russian missile entered Poland for almost three minutes and then turned back into Ukrainian airspace.

Gen Wieslaw Kukula said the missile travelled about 40km (25 miles) into Polish airspace early on Friday.

The alert coincided with what Ukraine has called Russia's biggest day of air strikes since its war began.

President Andrzej Duda convened an emergency security meeting after the object was picked up on radar.

About 200 police officers have been conducting a search of the area where the object was detected in case the missile landed on Polish territory.

Poland is a member of the Nato alliance, and Polish and Allied aircraft were scrambled in response to the incident at around 07:00 (06:00 GMT) on Friday. There have been no reports of an explosion.

Operational Command spokesman Lt Col Jacek Goryszewski said an unidentified object had entered Poland from Ukraine near the town of Zamosc, in the Lublin region of south-eastern Poland, not far from the border.

He told private broadcaster TVN24 the event may be linked with Russia's missile and drone attack against some of Ukraine's biggest cities.

[alach]

pootie's temper tantrum at the loss of the ship the other day. The estimated cost of his tantrum was over $1.2 billion dollars for no military benefit as those not shot down only hit civilian targets.

Oh, and reportedly the commanders of the air defence units that failed to bring down the missiles that blew up his ship have been reassigned to meat wave units.

You mean this?

The Ukrainian missile strike that dramatically blew up the Russian navy landing ship Novocherkask in the port of Feodosia in southeastern Crimea on Tuesday...

Or this?

...also sank another vessel: the old training ship UTS-150.

The Second Victim Of Ukraine’s Missile Strike On That Russian Ammo Ship: A 70-Year-Old Minesweeper

The 190-foot, 600-ton vessel was moored near Novocherkask when, on Tuesday morning, Ukrainian air force Sukhoi Su-24 bombers struck the landing ship with either British-made Storm Shadow cruise missiles or similar, French-made SCALP-EGs.

The missile strikes sparked a blaze that later triggered a secondary explosion. The Russian Black Sea Fleet apparently was using Novocherkask to haul ammunition to Russian ground forces in southern Ukraine. On Tuesday morning the landing ship reportedly had 4,700 artillery shells and rocket rounds in her hold.

Those rounds exploded with the force of at least 30 tons of TNT, disintegrating Novocherkask, damaging buildings across Feodosia and sinking UTS-150 at her mooring. In satellite imagery from after the Ukrainian strike, the training vessel’s deckhouse is visible poking above the water.

Probably both.

[Elder Millennial]

Ukraine hits and vaporizes a Russian warship supplying the Russian invasion.

Russia bombs hospitals, maternity wards, shopping malls and apartment buildings in retaliation.

These two sentences summarize the difference between the two sides in this conflict.

[Iphie]

pootie's temper tantrum at the loss of the ship the other day. The estimated cost of his tantrum was over $1.2 billion dollars for no military benefit as those not shot down only hit civilian targets.

Oh, and reportedly the commanders of the air defence units that failed to bring down the missiles that blew up his ship have been reassigned to meat wave units.

Not being funny, but sending your commanders to die for failure will only promote more lies, won't it? (not to mention that you then start to become a problem for your commanders.)

[Dontrike]

Not being funny, but sending your commanders to die for failure will only promote more lies, won't it? (not to mention that you then start to become a problem for your commanders.)

I doubt Putin cares about how many commanders he will lose to this seeing as he's lost dozens upon dozens already.

[Iphie]

I doubt Putin cares about how many commanders he will lose to this seeing as he's lost dozens upon dozens already.

I mean: they will tell him what he wants to hear which won't necessarily be the truth when it comes to battlefield success, additionally when the leader starts to strike closer to home people tend to get afraid for their own hide meaning that the incentive to remove a leader grows, putin is leader because of the support he has and because of how afraid people are of him. The flipside is that at some point it doesn't matter how afraid you are of him, you are a dead man either way and then striking first might just save your sorry butt.

Humans are really simple creatures we operate on a simple principle:

-is this dangerous to me?
-no? carry on.
-Yes? what can I do to remove the danger?

[Corvus]

russia says 10 have been killed in Belgorod after Ukraine drone attacks but evidence seems to suggest that debris from air defence over the city was the cause of the damage.

[Cynical Asshole]

I doubt Putin cares about how many commanders he will lose to this seeing as he's lost dozens upon dozens already.

He cares as much as Stalin cared about sending unarmed soldiers into battle.

Russian leaders have a history of not giving a single fuck about their own men.

[Makabreska]

Aaaaand another one

[MCMLXXXII]

Third floor? What a weakling!

[Kallisto]

Third floor? What a weakling!

Is it Third floor US or Third floor (4th floor) other areas? That can make a difference.

[Elder Millennial]

Aaaaand another one

"The Russian authorities are investigating what caused his death"

Being Russian in Putin's Russia caused his death.